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Land with a climate like Decatur, Illinois

🇺🇸Decatur, Illinois, United States

The towns with the closest growing climate to Decatur, Illinois are Jacksonville, United States (99% match), Dayton and Hannibal. About 626,000 sq mi of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.The towns with the closest growing climate to Decatur, Illinois are Jacksonville, United States (99% match), Dayton and Hannibal. About 1.6 million km² of land in 18 countries matches 80% or better, most of it in Missouri, United States, Illinois, United States and Ohio, United States.

Your growing climate

Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,710 chill hours · 1,034 mm rain

What grows in Decatur, Illinois →

Regions with the most land like yours

  1. 1

    🇺🇸Missouri, United States

    61k sq mi159k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Hannibal (99), Wentzville (99)

  2. 2

    🇺🇸Illinois, United States

    51k sq mi131k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Jacksonville (99), Godfrey (99)

  3. 3

    🇺🇸Ohio, United States

    41k sq mi107k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Dayton (99), Kettering (99)

  4. 4

    🇷🇺Krasnodar Krai, Russia

    16k sq mi42k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Labinsk (93), Kurganinsk (92)

  5. 5

    🇷🇸Central Serbia, Serbia

    12k sq mi32k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Loznica (90), Valjevo (90)

  6. 6

    🇷🇸Vojvodina, Serbia

    9,200 sq mi24k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Nova Pazova (87), Ruma (87)

  7. 7

    🇮🇹Lombardy, Italy

    4,200 sq mi11k km² matching 80% or better

    For example Gallarate (88), Cassano Magnago (87)

  8. 8

    🇧🇦Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,800 sq mi9,900 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Bijeljina (90), Doboj (89)

  9. 9

    🇧🇦Federation of B&H, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    3,400 sq mi8,800 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Lukavac (90), Gradačac (89)

  10. 10

    🇷🇴Dolj, Romania

    2,800 sq mi7,200 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Filiaşi (87), Craiova (86)

  11. 11

    🇷🇴Teleorman County, Romania

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Zimnicea (84), Alexandria (82)

  12. 12

    🇷🇴Olt, Romania

    2,600 sq mi6,700 km² matching 80% or better

    For example Balş (84), Caracal (84)

Regions are states and provinces, counting land within 75 km of a town. At most three per country, so the list covers the world.

Closest towns

  1. 1

    🇺🇸JacksonvilleIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,734 chill hours · 979 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  2. 2

    🇺🇸DaytonOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,700 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,700 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  3. 3

    🇺🇸HannibalMissouri, United States

    Zone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,690 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 199 frost-free days · 2,690 chill hours · 1,002 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  4. 4

    🇺🇸ColumbusOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 195 frost-free days · 2,714 chill hours · 981 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  5. 5

    🇺🇸Terre HauteIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,667 chill hours · 42 in rainZone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,667 chill hours · 1,064 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  6. 6

    🇺🇸FlorenceKentucky, United States

    Zone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,575 chill hours · 44 in rainZone 7a · 202 frost-free days · 2,575 chill hours · 1,127 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  7. 7

    🇺🇸CincinnatiOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,514 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 204 frost-free days · 2,514 chill hours · 1,103 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  8. 8

    🇺🇸LancasterOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,793 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 188 frost-free days · 2,793 chill hours · 1,021 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  9. 9

    🇺🇸CharlestonIllinois, United States

    Zone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,712 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 200 frost-free days · 2,712 chill hours · 1,097 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  10. 10

    🇺🇸ColumbusIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 43 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,660 chill hours · 1,096 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  11. 11

    🇺🇸BloomingtonIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,646 chill hours · 45 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,646 chill hours · 1,147 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  12. 12

    🇺🇸IndianapolisIndiana, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,741 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,741 chill hours · 1,049 mm rain

    Shares 23 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  13. 13

    🇺🇸PeoriaIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,870 chill hours · 37 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,870 chill hours · 942 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  14. 14

    🇺🇸SedaliaMissouri, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,505 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,505 chill hours · 1,015 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  15. 15

    🇺🇸WarrensburgMissouri, United States

    Zone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,517 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 198 frost-free days · 2,517 chill hours · 1,027 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  16. 16

    🇺🇸ChillicotheOhio, United States

    Zone 7a · 194 frost-free days · 2,662 chill hours · 41 in rainZone 7a · 194 frost-free days · 2,662 chill hours · 1,046 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  17. 17

    🇺🇸ColumbiaMissouri, United States

    Zone 7a · 211 frost-free days · 2,465 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 7a · 211 frost-free days · 2,465 chill hours · 1,012 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  18. 18

    🇺🇸NormalIllinois, United States

    Zone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,922 chill hours · 38 in rainZone 6b · 188 frost-free days · 2,922 chill hours · 969 mm rain

    Shares 21 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  19. 19

    🇺🇸O'FallonMissouri, United States

    Zone 7a · 209 frost-free days · 2,441 chill hours · 39 in rainZone 7a · 209 frost-free days · 2,441 chill hours · 998 mm rain

    Shares 22 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match
  20. 20

    🇺🇸KirksvilleMissouri, United States

    Zone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,853 chill hours · 40 in rainZone 6b · 192 frost-free days · 2,853 chill hours · 1,005 mm rain

    Shares 20 of your 23 great-fit crops

    99%match

Any town over 15,000 people, skipping those within 75 km of you. ↻ = seasons flipped across the equator.

How matching works

We compare all twelve months of average highs and lows, rain, humidity and sunshine, the same way as Climatch's places-like search, but weighted for growing: winter lows count most, since frost, chill and hardiness decide which perennials survive, then summer highs and rain. Humidity counts least.

Scores show how unusual a match this close is: 80 or better is closer than all but about 2% of random pairs of places. Across the equator seasons are lined up (↻), so a southern farm's January is compared with a northern July. Climate is only part of it: check soil, water and day length (it matters for photoperiod crops) before buying land.

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Climate data: TerraClimate 1991–2020 monthly averages (Abatzoglou, J.T. et al., 2018, Scientific Data 5:170191). Humidity is derived from TerraClimate vapor pressure; “sunshine” is solar radiation.

Places: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map: © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

Grower tools: crop ranges from FAO ECOCROP and university extension guides (cited per crop). Daily weather, frost dates and chill are estimated from the monthly averages; chill portions use the Dynamic Model (Fishman, Erez & Couvillon, 1987), hardiness zones follow the USDA definition.